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Wireless Technologies in Mass Transit for Convenience and Safety
Modern Mass Transit is making it easier for commuters, especially with the latest inter connecting wireless technologies. Many buses, commuter trains, shuttles and also trolley cars now have WiFi wireless computer access so no-one is out of touch through the travel time. This is being done now in Baltimore to NY trains and in Sacramento to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Trains thanks to Amtrak. After all we've WiFi hotspots at McDonalds, Kinko's, Book Stores, Starbucks, Airports and hotel lobbies already.

Insurance firms these amenities we can get people to stay out of these cars and enjoy the commute and or have a high speed train on the next trip; not forgetting save the gasoline that is approaching $3.00 per gallon. After the system is built the operational costs are relatively low considering the costs of expanding airports which generally have cyclical trends during boom and bust years and thus hard to manage your ROI, with gates becoming empty and new gates which have to be built-in the up cycle. One only must follow the sector rotations of the airline industry and take a trip through the California desert and look at Billions of dollars of Airliners sitting hibernated which may never be used again. Between the cutthroat price wars, Bankruptcy tactics and now era of International Terrorism we have to rethink our transportation strategy to include other redundancy methods, that may deliver the speed and comfort that we use to possess in Commercial Aviation.

We have a couple Nationwide Bus Companies that deliver people across the country. We have to insure buses are safe also in the era of International Terrorism and at exactly the same time we have to increase usage and ridership. New interconnected wireless technologies can perform both. Since you are already on the Internet it is possible to send video feed back again to the command and control for the mass transit system and constantly monitor.

Providing amenities to commuters and safety simultaneously provides riders back and let's face it no one wants to pay $85.00 each week to fill their SUV with gasoline. Now is a good time to coax the public back to the mass transit systems we have already setup and improve the economies of scale to make those old embellished proformas used to float the bond measure a reality. Can technology really do all that? Perhaps it could. Think about it.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. For those who have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.
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